Sage is a program for numerical and symbolic mathematical computation. It is meant to provide an alternative for commercial programs such as Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica. It is actually mantained in the community repository.

A package should be produced in the directory. Install it as root (pacman only installs if root):

# pacman -U sage-mathematics-4.6.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

Note: will take about 10hrs to compile on 1.8GHz Celeron w/256MB ram

Sage-Commandline

Once installed, users should be able to start the sage commandline in bash.

$ sage

Math can then be typed at this commandline.

sage: 2+2
4

As well as a command to start the notebook server if desired.

sage: notebook()

Sage-Notebook

To start the Sage-Notebook server from bash, without going thru Sage-Commandline:

$ sage -n

The notebook will be accessable in the browser from http://localhost:8000 , and will require you to login. However, If you are only intending to run the server for personal use, and not across the internet, the login will be an annoyance.

You can instead start Sage notebook without requiring login, and have it automatically pop up in a browser.

SageTeX

If you have installed Texlive on your system, you may be interested in using SageTeX, a package that makes possible the inclusion of sage code in LaTeX files. The correct procedure for enabling SageTex system-wide is the following (do it as root, or with sudo):